EWMRC2024

16 January 2025.Nine of our 2024 Nova Scotia birds continue to check in and remain stationary, with one exception: NS-2024-35, a (now) second year male, decided to quit southern Virginia, and moved about 100km south to an area east of Raleigh, North Carolina. NS-2024-24 continues to make small movements on the southwest coast of Nova Scotia.Additionally, LA-2024-49, a now third year male we tagged in eastern Louisiana on January 9, 2024 and that bred in Manitoba last spring, returned to central Louisiana and remains stationary (and presumably alive) as of yesterday! We are very fortunate to receive locations from 3...

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13 January 2025.

All of our birds remain stationary in their wintering locations noted over the last few updates, though it seems the batteries on some units may be on their last legs. Hopefully we’ll catch a few more winter movements before they peter out entirely!

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10 January 2025. All but one of our Nova Scotia birds continue in their stationary positions in North Carolina and Virginia, and NS-2024-24 remains stationary on the southwestern coast of Nova Scotia, still making 200m movements every few days. He may still be hanging on, an impressive feat for one so small!NS-2024-36, a hatch year male thus far wintering in northern Virginia, gave the cold shoulder to the winter storm that swept through the mid-Atlantic states earlier this week, moving to North Carolina by January 7, and further toward the coast by January 8, for a total of about 500km. View the...

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Happy 2025! Many of our Nova Scotia birds continue in their stationary positions, almost exclusively in North Carolina and Virginia, with NS-2024-18 bucking the trend by wintering in Louisiana. NS-2024-24 remains stationary on the southwestern coast of the province as of early this morning; his last movement >200m was on December 21.

We have not received check-ins from any additional birds from our Louisiana 2024 group, though LA-2024-61 has checked in from the Nashville area as recently as December 31, seeming to move about 1km between December 23 and 24. 

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Most of our birds tagged in Nova Scotia this October have remained stationary in the mid-Atlantic states. A lone bird, NS-2024-24, remains in Nova Scotia as of December 24, on the southwestern coast. We hope he’ll make his overwater crossing soon, but he may stay in the province until his GPS unit dies, just like NS-2023-16.Even more birds from our 2024 Louisiana group have checked in over the last few days, bringing our returning birds total to 13. Of these 13 birds, most returned to within 150km of their capture sites, and 6 are currently within 50km of these sites.  View...

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Happy holidays to you and yours! As mentioned in the last update, our 2024 Nova Scotia birds came ‘back to life’ on November 15th…and most of them were stateside! All but 4 birds left the province much earlier than we anticipated, so we missed most of their overwater migrations. BUT…we are capturing detailed migratory flight data from them instead, which we’ll use in analyses related to night light and flight speeds. In other news, 9 of the woodcock we tagged last January in Louisiana checked back in over the last several days! These birds are now all adults, with most being...

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